Minor may refer to:

Common meanings

Minor (law) In law, a minor is someone under a certain age, usually the age of majority, which demarcates an underage individual from legal adulthood. The age of majority depends upon Jurisdiction (area), jurisdiction and application, but it is commonly 18 ...

, a person not under the age of certain legal activities. *

Academic minor An academic minor is an secondary area of study of an undergraduate college or university student, in addition to their "major". The institution lays out a framework of required classes or class types a student must complete to earn the minor ...

, a secondary field of study in undergraduate education

Mathematics

Minor (graph theory) Minor may refer to: Common meanings * Minor (law), a person not under the age of certain legal activities. * Academic minor, a secondary field of study in undergraduate education Mathematics * Minor (graph theory), a relation of one graph to ...

, a relation of one graph to another * Minor (matroid theory), a relation of one matroid to another *

Minor (linear algebra) In linear algebra, a minor of a matrix (mathematics), matrix is the determinant of some smaller square matrix generated from by removing one or more of its rows and columns. Minors obtained by removing just one row and one column from square ma ...

, the determinant of a square submatrix

Music

Minor chord In music theory, a minor chord is a chord that has a root, a minor third, and a perfect fifth. When a chord comprises only these three notes, it is called a minor triad. For example, the minor triad built on A, called an A minor triad, has pit ...

Minor interval In music theory, an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds. An interval may be described as horizontal, linear, or melodic if it refers to successively sounding tones, such as two adjacent pitches in a melody, and vertical or har ...

Minor key In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a musical composition in Western classical music, jazz music, art music, and pop music. A particular key features a '' tonic (main) note'' and it ...

Minor scale In Classical_music, Western classical music theory, the minor scale refers to three Scale (music), scale patterns – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending). ...

People

Minor (given name) Minor is a masculine given name. Notable people with this name include: * Minor J. Coon (1921–2018), American biochemist * Minor Hall (1897–1959), American jazz drummer * Minor Cooper Keith (1848–1929), American businessman * Minor Watson ...

, a masculine given name *

Minor (surname) Minor is a surname shared by several notable people: * Anne Rogers Minor (1864–1947), American clubwoman and artist * Audax Minor (1887–1979), pen name of Canadian writer George F. T. Ryall * Barbara Haviland Minor, American chemical engineer * ...

, a surname

Places in the United States

Minor, Alabama Minor is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is located north of the Birmingham suburb, Pleasant Grove and has a population of 1,094 (2010 census). Minor was damaged by an F5 tornado on April 8, 199 ...

, a census-designated place *

Minor, Virginia Minor is an unincorporated community in King and Queen County, Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlan ...

, an unincorporated community *

Minor Creek (California) Minor Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona ...

* Minor Creek (Missouri) * Minor Glacier, Wyoming

Sports

Minor Minor may refer to: Common meanings * Minor (law), a person not under the age of certain legal activities. * Academic minor, a secondary field of study in undergraduate education Mathematics * Minor (graph theory), a relation of one graph to an ...

, a grade in Gaelic games; also, a person who qualifies to play in that grade *

Minor league Minor leagues are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports. Minor league teams tend to play in smaller, less elaborate venues, often competing in smaller cities/markets. This term is used in Nort ...

, a sports league not regarded as a premier league **

Minor League Baseball Minor League Baseball (MiLB) is a professional baseball organization below Major League Baseball (MLB), constituted of teams affiliated with MLB clubs. It was founded on September 5, 1901, in response to the growing dominance of the National Le ...

or "the minors", the North American professional baseball leagues affiliated to but below Major League Baseball *

Minor penalty A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for an infringement of the rules. Most penalties are enforced by sending the offending player to a penalty box for a set number of minutes. During the penalty the player may not participate in play. Penalties ...

in ice hockey

Vehicles

Morris Minor The Morris Minor is an economy car produced by British marque Morris Motors between 1948 and 1971. It made its debut at the Earls Court Motor Show, London, in October 1948. Designed under the leadership of Alec Issigonis, more than 1.6 ...

, a British automobile brand *

Jawa Minor JAWA () is a motorcycle and moped manufacturer founded in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1929 by František Janeček, ...

, a Czech automobile introduced 1937 *

Aero Minor The Aero Minor is a Czechoslovakia automobile that was manufactured by Aero from 1946 until 1952. It was designed by Jawa Motors engineers on their previous Jawa Minor design; they worked on it secretly during the German occupation of Czechoslov ...

, a Czech automobile from Jawa Motors, 1946–1952

Other uses

* Minor, a chocolate brand owned by

Maestrani Maestrani is a Swiss chocolate producer based in Flawil (Canton of St. Gallen, St. Gallen). It was founded in 1852 in Lucerne by Aquilino Maestrani (1814–1880), a Ticinese chocolatier from Aquila, Switzerland, Aquila. The company became prosper ...

Minor Hotels Minor Hotels is an international hotel owner, operator, and investor headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand, with more than 550 hotels in over 55 countries across Asia–Pacific, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Europe, and th ...

, a Thailand-based multinational hotel chain, a subsidiary of Minor International *

Minor International Minor International is a Thai multi-national company based in Bangkok, Thailand. The three core businesses of Minor International are hospitality, restaurants, and lifestyle brands distribution, operated under subsidiary companies Minor Hotels ...

, a Thailand-based multinational restaurant, hotel and retail company *

Minor suit In contract bridge the minor suits are diamonds () and clubs (). They are given that name because contracts made in those suits score less (20 per contracted trick) than contracts made in the major suits (30 per contracted trick), and they rank ...

or minors in contract bridge, namely clubs and diamonds * ''The Minor'' (Foote play), 1760 * ''The Minor'' (Fonvizin play), 1782 *

Minor Theater The Minor Theatre, located at 1001 H Street in Arcata, California, reopened under independent ownership in 2016. It is the second oldest movie theater in the United States to be built for that purpose. (The oldest movie theater in California is t ...

in Arcata, California, United States * ''

Minor v. Happersett ''Minor v. Happersett'', 88 U.S. (21 Wall.) 162 (1875), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that citizenship does not confer a right to vote, and therefore state laws barring women from voting are constitutionally vali ...

'', a case appealed to the US Supreme Court concerning the right to vote